They turn it around 1/2 way there. A solar sail will (in theory) accelerate 1/2 the way then turn around and decelerate the rest of the way. Though, since the push from the solar wind will diminish the further from Sol it gets, it won't be at the 1/2 way mark.
I've heard this several times, however I've yet to see a Cellphone/PDA mix that I can simply WRITE ON! That they insist on mini keypads that I can't use quickly rather than Graffiti, which I can do quite well (Several pages of notes in 45 minutes) will force me to keep my crappy little Visor Edge, when I'd fork out $500 in a second for a decent Cellphone/PDA combination.
Like another poster mentioned, combination devices really suck if you use them more than occasionally.
"I use a Promise IDE card because the kernel doesn't support an SATA hard drive and a CD drive on the same chipset"
Uhm, wtf? So its the kernel's fault that an IDE drive won't work on SATA? Hell, I guess I'll go bitch that my old UDMA IDE drives won't work in my Hot Swapable ultra 320 array.
Actually, if you built down from space rather than up and anchor it on an asteroid, as soon as the cable comes loose, it will simply fly off into space.
Having worked construction myself, a few years ago the "on time" schedule for a house was 90 days. These were LARGE houses, 3k-5k sq ft. And the super is always trying to finish quicker, and schedules have gone down, but I don't know what they are now. As other posters noted, this only does a rough equivalent to a frame (how's it do windows?) and that usually takes a small fraction of the time (10-20%). One job I was on had a crew (4 guys) that framed up 21 houses in 6 weeks. It was amazing.
One question I'm wondering, might it be cheaper to have a few machines per department running a windows terminal server and use these machines for any program that doesn't work under Linux rather than Wine? This is what my university does, we all log into a Windows machine to do VHDL simulations, and it 4 (cheapish) machines seem to be able to handle 20-30 students using Active-HDL, so IE should be no problem.
Or, you can USE A PACKAGE MANAGER!!! This is MY biggest gripe about idiots that think they are "Power Users". Use a package manager and install the programs. I realize not every program is packaged for your particular variant, but a large percentage of libraries ARE. So USE A PACKAGE MANAGER!
And, BTW, have you ever noticed that little pesky message on you beloved Windows "unable to locate foo.dll"? Same thing. Except for when program bar needs foo version 1.2 and program baz need foo version 1.4. Then you fucked because, without renaming the library (aka: access to the source of the application) you cant have multiple versions of a library installed. Linux, however, you'll link against libfoo.so-1.2 and libfoo.so-1.4 and you PACKAGE MANAGER will make symlinks to the correct lib.
Yes, I realize it can be annoying. However, you know that jpeg problem in windows? and the corresponding png problem in libpng? Well, in linux its a matter of putting a fixed libpng. In windows its a matter of recompiling all of those static applications you love so much, downloading and reinstalling each and every one of them.
Then again, your an idiot replying to an idiot article. Does that make me an idiot for replying to you? Most likely.
Maybe SLASHDOT could introduce a SPELLCHECK into THEIR posting.
Hrm.. Nope, I guess making all the nouns all caps doesn't make it any more meaningful.
If you are trying to motivate people, try proofreading your post. I'll bet the single block of text made most people skip it. The caps didn't help either.
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Now that's funny.. A joke is corny and marked down. The reply misunderstands the joke and is marked as funny...
And various versions of the packaged for Debian java like to chomp up 1.8G (yes G) of RAM for every little java app.
With these editors.... it may even have the same articles!
They turn it around 1/2 way there. A solar sail will (in theory) accelerate 1/2 the way then turn around and decelerate the rest of the way. Though, since the push from the solar wind will diminish the further from Sol it gets, it won't be at the 1/2 way mark.
I've heard this several times, however I've yet to see a Cellphone/PDA mix that I can simply WRITE ON! That they insist on mini keypads that I can't use quickly rather than Graffiti, which I can do quite well (Several pages of notes in 45 minutes) will force me to keep my crappy little Visor Edge, when I'd fork out $500 in a second for a decent Cellphone/PDA combination.
Like another poster mentioned, combination devices really suck if you use them more than occasionally.
"I use a Promise IDE card because the kernel doesn't support an SATA hard drive and a CD drive on the same chipset"
Uhm, wtf? So its the kernel's fault that an IDE drive won't work on SATA? Hell, I guess I'll go bitch that my old UDMA IDE drives won't work in my Hot Swapable ultra 320 array.
Actually, if you built down from space rather than up and anchor it on an asteroid, as soon as the cable comes loose, it will simply fly off into space.
Having worked construction myself, a few years ago the "on time" schedule for a house was 90 days. These were LARGE houses, 3k-5k sq ft. And the super is always trying to finish quicker, and schedules have gone down, but I don't know what they are now. As other posters noted, this only does a rough equivalent to a frame (how's it do windows?) and that usually takes a small fraction of the time (10-20%). One job I was on had a crew (4 guys) that framed up 21 houses in 6 weeks. It was amazing.
So, yeah 6mo is at least double reality.
I think 1GW would be better than 1000mW, which is 1W, not 1MW. You must be American... case matters in the Metric system...
One question I'm wondering, might it be cheaper to have a few machines per department running a windows terminal server and use these machines for any program that doesn't work under Linux rather than Wine? This is what my university does, we all log into a Windows machine to do VHDL simulations, and it 4 (cheapish) machines seem to be able to handle 20-30 students using Active-HDL, so IE should be no problem.
Or, you can USE A PACKAGE MANAGER!!! This is MY biggest gripe about idiots that think they are "Power Users". Use a package manager and install the programs. I realize not every program is packaged for your particular variant, but a large percentage of libraries ARE. So USE A PACKAGE MANAGER!
And, BTW, have you ever noticed that little pesky message on you beloved Windows "unable to locate foo.dll"? Same thing. Except for when program bar needs foo version 1.2 and program baz need foo version 1.4. Then you fucked because, without renaming the library (aka: access to the source of the application) you cant have multiple versions of a library installed. Linux, however, you'll link against libfoo.so-1.2 and libfoo.so-1.4 and you PACKAGE MANAGER will make symlinks to the correct lib.
Yes, I realize it can be annoying. However, you know that jpeg problem in windows? and the corresponding png problem in libpng? Well, in linux its a matter of putting a fixed libpng. In windows its a matter of recompiling all of those static applications you love so much, downloading and reinstalling each and every one of them.
Then again, your an idiot replying to an idiot article. Does that make me an idiot for replying to you? Most likely.
Maybe SLASHDOT could introduce a SPELLCHECK into THEIR posting.
Hrm.. Nope, I guess making all the nouns all caps doesn't make it any more meaningful.
If you are trying to motivate people, try proofreading your post. I'll bet the single block of text made most people skip it. The caps didn't help either.
hey, try bzip2 ;) its onlu 49 bytes or
.00000467300415039062% the size.